1896, this guy Howard Brees Fonda, who's actually a, just like the Fonda family from Hollywood,

who's descended from the sky.

Cool.

He created an inhaler that you used to crush the ampule because obviously crushing a piece

of glass has some possible, you know, what do you call them?

It's problematic.

It's problematic.

You can cut yourself.

You can inhale glass, I guess.

I don't know.

In 1956, in England, there's a home secretary.

This guy, Gwiliam, very...

What?

You can't be...

You can't be William.

I'm putting my foot down on this.

Fucking William Lloyd George. Pick a team. Are you team William or not?

He starts to hear that in West London, some people have been selling amyl nitrate,

a nitrate for improper use, he says. And this almost leads to him taking action, but he decides to look it up in the books.

And at this point, there's like, you know, these fucking tomes of medical books that catalog

drugs like this.

And they're listed as, like, having no real, like, toxic effect and no real possible toxic side effects so they're safe

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